pooseback
English edit
Etymology edit
From papoose and back, with the form perhaps influenced by piggyback.
Adverb edit
pooseback (not comparable)
- (US, dialects, possibly dated) piggyback
- 1857, Putnam's Monthly, volume 10, page 228:
- Poquannum, then, took it pooseback, and carried it rapidly fifty rods further, […]
- 1870, A free and independent translation of the first and fourth books of the Aeneid, page 10:
- The hero who valiantly cudgeled his cruel Greek foes back,
While safely he brought off his aged old ancestor pooseback?